National Laboratory for High Performance Computing

(NLHPC)

Eduardo'VeraExecu&ve(Director(.(NLHPC(.(www.nlhpc.clCenter(for(Mathema&cal(Modeling((CMM)

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Mission & VisionTo consolidate a national facility for HPC by offering top quality services and advanced training to answer

the national demand for scientific computing, developing links between research groups, the

industry and the public sector

We envision the NLHPC as a competitive facility of world-class quality for research services in HPC

Objectives

1. To develop and support powerful and reliable computing and network resources enabling national researchers to have access to HPC capacity to solve computing- and data-intensive scientific problems.

2. To stimulate and participate in the creation of a national high-speed network for the transmission of research data.

3. To use and explore innovative architectures and techniques to accelerate scientific computing.

4. To trigger new industrial initiatives in HPC.

5. To help educate the next generation of scientists and engineers in HPC.

6. To increase social awareness of the role of HPC in contemporary society and technological development.

CRITICAL IT PARTNER TO LARGE-SCALE AND DATA INTENSIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS BASED ON HPC

Estimated Scientific Demand for HPC:A Key Issue for improving Chilean competitiveness

• Near to 50 Chilean research groups (aprox. 300 researchers) are actually demanding HPC resources

• The expansion of Chilean research in data-driven sciences such as Omics, Bioinformatics and Astronomy, requires a national facility for HPC services

• Scientific contributions in areas such Molecular Simulations, Quantum chemistry and Astrophysics are highly dependent on the availability of HPC capacities

• Astronomy will become a highly demanding research field for HPC: LSST and AURA will produce more than 40TB of raw data per night

Associative Model: An Open Model

NLHPC Associated Institutions

200 miles

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Chile

Universidad de Chile (UChile)

Sponsoring Institution

Universidad Católica (UC)

Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN)

Universidad de Santiago (USACH)

Universidad de la Frontera (UFRO)

Universidad Santa María (USM)

Universidad de Talca (UTalca)

REUNAConnectivity

Other Chilean institutions to be

added ...

NLHPC International Network: Global Outlook

• Access to advanced training

• Technological support network

• Collaboration agreements and joint research projects

• Participation on international HPC networks and projects: Gellato Federation, PRAGMA, GISELA

• CMM’s technology partners: IBM, HP, Microsoft and NTT

The NLHPCSupercomputing Infrastructure

REUNA

Counterpart

UFRO

Counterpart

RequestedUTALCA

Counterpart

RequestedUSACH

Counterpart

Requested

UCHILERequested

Counterpart

PUC

Counterpart

RequestedUSM

Counterpart

RequestedUCN

Counterpart

Requested

X86-64 SSI (256 cores)

Storage (600 TB)

X86-64 (2000 cores) + 64 GPUs

X86-64 (600 cores)

X86-64 (64 cores) Storage (48 TB)

X86-64 (62 cores)

X86-64 (64 cores) Storage (20 TB)

X86-64 (44 cores)

Visualization Cluster

X86-64 (26 cores)

Requested

X86-64 SSI (32 cores)

X86-64 SSI (24 cores)

GPU-CPU (64 units)

X86-64 SSI (24 cores)

X86-64 (64 cores)

X86-64 (48 cores)

Photonic Switch Infiniband Switch

Photonic Switch

Photonic Router / Switch

Interconnectivity services

Current CMM Technology:An Advanced Computing Cluster Open to the Chilean Scientific Community

IBM iDataplex machine (Levque)

• 66 computing nodes

• 600 cores, Intel Xeon X5550 (nehalem)

• 3 GB per core

• Two IB ports 40 GB/s

• 100% non-blocking Infiniband interconnection Switch Qlogic 12800-180

• Nodes for queuing, metadata storage, applications testing, development, grid access and webservices access

• Data gathered during last month with only 20% of potential users • 75% of average CPU load

NLHPC Advanced Network Technology:Strengthening Academic Networks across the country

UChile Institutional Network

REUNA(North of Chile)

REUNA(Santiago)

REUNA(South of Chile)

0.25x� = 2.5Gbps

CMM HPC Infrastructure

1Gbps (Dark Fiber)

1Gbps (Dark Fiber)

350Mbps

Additional impact of the network enhancement:

• e-learning

• Video-conferencing

• Accessing e-infrastructures

• Distributing knowledge

Current situation

NLHPC Advanced Network Technology:Strengthening Academic Networks across the country

Additional impact of the network enhancement:

• e-learning

• Video-conferencing

• Accessing e-infrastructures

• Distributing knowledge

NLHPC situation

UCHILE Institutional Network

REUNA(North of Chile)

REUNA(Santiago)

REUNA(South of Chile)

0.25x� = 2.5Gbps

CMM HPC Infrastructure

1Gbps (Dark Fiber)

UFRO

UTALCAUSACHUCUSM

UCN

1Gbps

1Gbps

1Gbps

1Gbps

10Gbps x � (Dark Fiber)

10Gbps x � (Dark Fiber)1Gbps

Educating the next generation of scientists and engineers in HPC

• To consolidate undergraduate courses in HPC

• To offer advanced courses in HPC for Doctoral training

• To organize periodic seminars on HPC

• To organize the NLHPC Annual Symposium

• To organize Industrial Workshops to promote the adoption of HPC by the industry

Outreach: Increasing the social awareness of the role of HPC in contemporary society and technological development

• Open Innovation program in HPC

• High-school guided visits

• HPC installation at MIM (Interactive Science Museum)

• Explora Projects

• HPC Cup

• General public lectures on the HPC impact in Mining Industry, Astronomy, Biotechnology, Climate Modeling, Early Alerts in Critical Events